Bloom’s Higher Level Questioning Skills

October 17, 2011CCS - Tera Thompson

dandtthompson@satx.rr.com

Bloom’s Taxonomy

The Old vs. the New

Bloom’s Taxonomy

• A guide to consider when evaluating the cognitive demands of each lesson/activity.

• Revised in 2001 to reflect refined thinking in the field and to begin to connect with 21st Century skills.

• Revisions are significant: Can be used to describe the cognitive demand of learning. The change in the highest levels is critical when planning for instruction and assessing the level of the standards themselves.

• Consider the level of questioning and the academic use of vocabulary.

Dice Rolling Resources

• http://www.saintannsny.org/depart/math/misterg.htm

• http://www.betweenwaters.com/probab/dice/dicemain3D.html

• http://www.random.org/dice/?num=2

Questioning Examples

http://tenbyten.org/10x10.html

Current Events

Who could

What couldn’t

When should

Where shouldn’t

Why might

How might ___not

Who can/can’t

What/Which would/could

When is/isn’t

Where will/won’t

Why might/might not

How did/didn’t

iPhone/iPad Bloom’s Questioning in the

Classroom

$2.99 in iTunes

Bloom’s Taxonomy

Resources and Applications by Level

Remembering

• Study Blue - www.studyblue.com • What to Learn - Games:

www.what2learn.com/play-a-game/make-your-own-game/

• Keep Vid - www.keepvid.com• Big Huge Labs -

http://bighugelabs.com/

Understanding

• BBC = Games and videos galore http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/games/

• Voki - talking avatars; www.voki.com• Animoto -  Student Sample Student Sample:

http://animoto.com/play/emZAbzZT0NalcJdC58HD0A

• blabberize - www.blabberize.com

Applying

• Vocaroo -  audio recording; www.vocaroo.com• Xtranormal = Create animated movies using

audio, pics, text; http:www.xtranormal.com• Daphne's Xtranormal:

http://daphnesplnblog.blogspot.com/

Analyzing

• 10 x 10 - photos and news of current events; http://tenbyten.org/10x10.html

• Inspiration• Journey North - migration, etc. tracking

animals; http://www.learner.org/jnorth/• Google News Timeline – explain events

http://newstimeline.googlelabs.com/

Evaluating

• Google Docs – collaborative writing (give & receive opinions; https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=df6bwk2v_395h754x6g6&pli=1

• Rubistar - http://rubistar.4teachers.org/

Creating

• Comic Life - create comics with opinions (Toondoo)

• iMovie and Flip Video • Prezi - more sophisticated slideshow;

www.prezi.com; student example: http://prezi.com/mdbgmzc32ryl/cewl/

• Animoto - www.animoto.com• Google Search Story  - ex

Your turn...

• http://www.boxoftricks.net/internet-resouces-for-education/